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Ontario's Road Map to Prosperity: Developing Renewable Energy to its Full Potential
(2009)
Ontario needs a practical solution that provides strong local economic
development and new employment sources to replace the 230,000
manufacturing jobs that have disappeared from the province in the last five
years.
As ...
Deconstructing the Four Pillars of the Climate Change Debate: A Critical Review of the Scientific, Economic, Political, and Ethical Dimensions
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)
Four major discourses within the climate change are identified and explored in this paper. First and foremost, there is the scientific discourse of climate change. The prevailing themes in this discourse are complexity, ...
Natural Systems and Alternative Urban Development
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)
The preservation of the Oak Ridges Moraine has forced an unprecedented examination of the ramifications of traditional urban growth patterns on natural systems. In 2000 and 2001, the focus of the debate became the relatively ...
Planning for Appropriate Recreation Activities In Mountain Environments: Mountain Biking in the Canadian Rocky Mountains
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2001)
The Canadian Rocky Mountains offer spectacular settings and the necessary topographic features to be conducive to mountain biking. Calgary, one of the major population centres of the region, which has a proportion of ...
Integrating People And Nature In Urban Wilderness: Bringing Together Concepts From Ecological Planning, Design And Restoration To Address The Opportunities And Challenges Of An Urban Ecological Regeneration Project
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2003)
This research paper examines the theories and principles of ecological planning, design and restoration as they apply to the development of a concept plan for a site located within the Rouge Park in the Greater Toronto ...
Odyssey of the Hyperreal (anti)Hero: A Couch Potato's Epic Pornosophy of Becoming
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2003)
This paper odysseys the narratives, images and information of my hyperreal environments. It chronicles my steady rise and fall from the intense, climactic, dazzling and ecstatic narratives of Close Encounters of the Third ...
Energy Planning for Sustainable Communities: Sustainable Pickering’s Journey
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2009)
Energy is essential to the quality of life that citizens have come to expect but it has come at a price. Increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have contributed to climate change – altering weather patterns and rendering ...
Opportunities and Constraints of Co-Management: Cases of the Buccoo Reef Marine Park and the Speyside Reefs Marine Park, Tobago
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2002)
In order to understand co-management, the concept must be examined from both the community and government perspectives since its essence is embedded in a framework of co-operation between these two entities. While a ...
Genome Presence: The Work of a Diagnostic/Iconic Image
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)
This paper is an exploration the work of a potent image: the human-instrumental-material work required to produce a karyotype, as well as the work done by the image, both in clinical settings, and as a public emblem of ...
Re/Producing 'Normalcy': Bodies, Everyday Social Practices and Photography
(Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, 2000)
As the white, female, able-body(ies) comes to the written and visual fore in mainstream academic, political, social and cultural circles in Euro-North-America, it is crucial at this particular historical moment to attend ...